Finding Purpose Beyond Our Pain: Uncover the Hidden Potential in Life's Most Common Struggles. This item is unavailable.Finding Purpose Beyond Our Pain: Uncover the Hidden Potential in Life's Most Common Struggles

A revolutionary approach to dealing with life's challenges that guides readers in how to face them and to recognize them as gifts from God.

At one time or another everyone finds themselves questioning, "Does God still love me? Is there a purpose for all this pain?" Drs. Meier and Henderson teach readers how to face painful struggles head-on in a way that allows them to grow and mature emotionally and spiritually. In this timely book they explore the seven most common life challenges:

• Injustice
• Rejection
• Loneliness
• Loss
• Discipline
• Failure
• Death

In addition they offer the three reasons we often miss the gifts these challenges can be. This unique approach to an age-old problem will encourage and challenge readers to grow through their struggles instead of wasting energy trying to avoid them altogether.

Nationally recognized psychiatrist and founder of the Meier Clinics, Paul Meier, M.D., is a frequent radio guest and best-selling author or co-author of more than eighty books, includingLove Is a Choice, Happiness Is a Choice, Don't Let Jerks Get the Best of You, Mood Swings,and Love Hunger. Meier also collaborated on the best-selling Millennium series, which includes three futuristic novels. He holds fives degrees including an M.D. from the University of Arkansas College of Medicine, a psychiatric residency at Duke University, and a seminary degree from Dallas Theological Seminary. Paul is married to Ann and the proud father of six children and two grandchildren.

David Livingstone Henderson, M.D. completed his medical training in Ohio and his psychiatric residency in South Carolina. He serves full time as a psychiatrist at the Meier Clinic in Dallas, Texas. David is an adjunct professor of biblical counseling at Dallas Theological Seminary and an Advisor to the Board of Directors of ROCK International, a worldwide organization designed to provide relief to children suffering from the effects of disasters and abuse.His research and clinical interests include anxiety, depression, chemical and behavioral addictions, and the effects of worldview and spirituality on mental and physical health. He and his wife, Angela, have two young children.